FEATURE:Victims of U.S. nuclear reactor site continue to suffer 80 years on

As cleanup efforts continue in Washington state at a decommissioned U.S. nuclear facility that played a crucial role in the country's acquisition of the atom bomb in World War II, questions linger over whether the site has caused serious health issues for workers and local residents.Construction began on the facility, known as the Hanford site, 80 years ago in 1943 and involved the building of the world's first large-scale nuclear reactor.Through the Manhattan Project, a U.S. government research and development program for building nuclear weapons, the site's B reactor, erected on a 580-squ…READ FULL ARTICLE